Timbuktu, in northern Mali, has been rendered a ghost town by the Islamists, leaving the residents with no electricity or drinking water for more than three days. Winning hearts and minds should not be difficult for the French forces there. Logistics, on the the other hand, should be challenging. As municpal elder Moctar Ould Kery (no relation to John) says: There is no water. The people have left and the Islamists too. It’s a ghost town.
Blogging from the brig. . .
The 1400 Year Locusts always leave a barren land behind them.
And to think that at one time it was a very rich place and part of the caravan routs. Traders from many nations traded there.
Well, you know what happens when Muslims take over…look at Dearborn and Detroit, MI….same thing’s happened there….k
Struan: Ah, the locusts.
CP: It once was epic. . .
Kris: Sad.